Cemitério de Agramonte
The Cemitério de Agramonte is an urban cemetery in the Portuguese city of Porto .
history
After initial planning in the late 1840s for a new cemetery in what is now the Cedofeita district , the Cemitério de Agramonte was initially only laid out as a simple burial ground in 1855 after a cholera epidemic . In 1869 it was reorganized as a modern cemetery, from which time the elaborate tombs were created that characterize the cemetery to this day. The cemetery chapel was built in 1870/71 according to plans by the engineer Gustavo Adolfo Gonçalves and expanded in 1906 by the architect José Marques da Silva . The Byzantine-style frescoes were created by Silvestro Silvestri in 1910. In the course of the reorganization, the cemetery was expanded to include privately used sections of some Portuese religious orders, such as the Third Carmelite Order , and a section for non-Catholic graves.
Numerous well-known personalities rest in the cemetery, such as the Conde de Ferreira , the sculptor Henrique Moreira , the archaeologist António Rocha Peixoto and the filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira . Some of the tombs are decorated with significant sculptural works by Soares dos Reis and Texeira Lopes .
swell
- Cemitério de Agramonte , Porto City Archives (Portuguese, accessed April 4, 2015)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Portugal mourns the loss of filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira , Die Welt , April 3, 2015
Coordinates: 41 ° 9 ′ 22.3 " N , 8 ° 37 ′ 56.4" W.